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Also recently in Providence Health: Claiming a $500M operating loss to get it back in federal COVID relief funding while sitting on a $100B reserve generating
by trynewideas 4y ago
Also recently in Providence Health:
Claiming a $500M operating loss to get it back in federal COVID relief funding while sitting on a $100B reserve generating $1B in investment income, as a non-profit[1]
Refusing to treat a life-threatening miscarriage by calling it an abortion, in 2019[2]
Inspiring the Oregon state legislature to protect access to reproductive health services when religious-based providers like Providence buy them out;[3] unlike secular hospitals, they're exempt from state law mandating free reproductive health care[4]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/business/coronavirus-hospitals-bailout.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/business/coronavirus-hosp...
[2] https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2019/09/25/miscarriage-catholic-hospital/ https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2019/09/25/miscarriage-catholic-...
[3] https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/06/oregon-hospital-merger-law-abortion-access-protections-us-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/ https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/06/oregon-hospital-merge...
[4] https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/06/22/health-insurers-not-following-oregon-law-requiring-free-reproductive-health-care-state-audit-says/ https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/06/22/health-insurer...